Improvement in plug-tobacco



UNrrnn S'rATEs PATENT *Qrrrca ADOLPH PEARL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PLUG-TOBACCO.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,466, dated October17, 1876; application filed September 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AnoLPH PEARL, of the city of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Manufactured Tobacco; and I do hereby decla-re that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing had to the accompanyin g drawing, which forms part of thisspecification.

This invention consists in a new article of manufactured tobacco, whichis made by cutting plug-tobacco into shreds or pieces without destroyingthe form of the plug, and subsequently inclosing said cut plug in acase, band, Wrapper, or envelope, -ready for use, either for smoking orchewing purposes.

This mode of preparing and putting up plugtobacco enables the purchaserto see that he is purchasing genuine cut plug; also to see what thequality of the tobacco is, inasmuch as the original grain ofthe plug isexposed to view. Such advantage is not attainable when plug-tobacco iscut up into an indiscriminate mass without any regard to preserving theoriginal form'and grain of the plug.

Another advantageis the convenience which is afforded for handling,carrying,. and using the tobacco, by reason of the compact and flat formin which the cut or shredded plug is retained, and the facility withwhich portions of it may be drawn out or detached, either for chewing orfor making into cigarettes, or for smoking in the pipe.

It may here be observed, before describing my invent-ion as illustratedin the accompanying drawing, that various degrees of coarseness orineness may be given to the cuts, and that the latter may be made invarious directions, and either entirely through the plug, or only mainlytherethrough, and so as to leave a thin uncut backing, which Will servethe purpose of holding the cut mass together without materially or atall interfering with the tearing or detaching of portions of the cutplug, as required for use.

Figure l represents a View, in perspective, of a cut plug, in accordancewith my invention, and as put up in an envelope ready for sale or use,the cuts being made in close relation with one another and transverselyof the plug. Fig. 2 is a like View of said plug, on a reduced scale, andas removed from the envelope, which holds it in form; also, showingstantially as specified.

a .strip or single cut portion as being torn or detached from theremainder of the plug. Fig. 3 is a view, in perspective, of a plug withthe cuts made in a longitudinal direction of the latter; and Fig. 4, alike View of a plug with the cuts made both longitudinally andtransversely through it.

In Fig. 1, A is the plug, having a series of closely-arranged transversecuts, b, made in or through it, and which may be ei'ected by a sharpknife having a reciprocating action, while the plug is intermittentlyfed forward under the knife and through a tubular holder into theenvelope B, which is arranged ready to receive said cut plug.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the other figures ofthe drawing, Figf'2 showing one of the strips or cut portions, Z5, as inthe act of being torn off or detached 'for use as a'chew, or'forworking" it into a cigarette, or for smoking ina pipe, said cutorshredded portion, if not 'sufficiently ne for the purpose it isrequired, being readily made so byl rubbing after its detachment fromthe plug. Any number of these strips, cut portions, or shreds b may bedetached or torn from the plug, as required, and with the greatestfacility, without disturbing or destroying the form or compactness ofthe remainder of the plug. l

rIhe same facility and advantages apply to the plug as prepared bymaking the cuts b longitudinally through it, as in Fig. 3, also when thecuts are both longitudinally and transversely arranged, as in Fig. 4.

Instead of an envelope being used to hold the cut plug together and inform, a mere band .will answer the purpose, or various kinds of case maybe used, and the same be coustructed to admit of the ready detachment ofone or more shredsor cut portions from the plug without removing thelatter from its package or case.

I claim- As a new article of manufactured tobacco, plug-tobacco cut upor shredded without destroying-the original form of the plug, andinclosed by an envelope, band, or case, which preserves the originalform of the plug and exposes to view the original grain thereof, sub-ADOLPH PEARL. Witnesses:

BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN,

FRED. HAYNEs.

